Quotes of the day

posted at 9:31 pm on June 16, 2012 by Allahpundit

The new media rose up precisely because the old media failed to tell the truth. That very first new media breakthrough was about 15 years ago when this lowly little store clerk in a lowly little apartment equipped with his computer and a modem broke one of the biggest stories of the decade. His name was Matt Drudge and the rest is history. And in hindsight, we see that the story he broke was more than just a president having an affair. To me it was much, much more than that. It was about a major old media publication that had spiked the story eleven times. And they knew all about it. Eleven times! Not just once to check their facts. Not twice just to double-check. Eleven times they spiked the story. Why? Because as charter members of that Democrat Media Complex they were protecting their guy. So, when a fellow with a modem and a website found out about this, he decided to tell the truth they refused to tell. And oh how that old media cried foul and they howled. They denounced Drudge as irresponsible and unprofessional and even dangerous and anti-everything from motherhood to apple pie. How dare that nobody from nowhere without a degree or a pedigree try to influence the national discourse. But the real reason they feared him was because he wasn’t beholden to the old media’s machine and the Thought Police. Unshackled, he was free. And a few months later, Drudge got to speak at the National Press Club in DC. He predicted the future in his speech there. He said, “We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be….I envision a future where there’ll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It’s freedom of participation absolutely realized.” Thus the birth of citizen journalism, and you are the future he predicted!

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Palin was clearly a draw for many RightOnline attendees.

“We’re Palin patriots,” Susan Rodgers of Seattle, Wash., with her husband Prentice, to POLITICO. “The minute we heard that she was speaking, we signed up and bought tickets.”

“She’s recharging,” Prentice said, when asked if Palin was becoming less relevant losing in 2008 as John McCain’s running mate. “She’s reloading.”

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Out of all of it, a few things I’m serious about. A short story that’s sci-fi; basically the last 15 minutes in the mind of a last survivor of something terrible. And the novel, for sure. It’s … horror/fantasy; a boy’s sister “gets sick” and he has to take care of her. He hides her and defends her; she saves him, and everyone else. It’s really all pretty good. I think.

I dunno.

Axe on June 17, 2012 at 2:39 AM

This part I find very appealing. I always was a fan of Rod Sterling. Do you remember the one with Burgess Meridith ? Hope I got that correct, I liked it. Here is an idea, its about a group of commenters that are trapped inside a blog, patiently and nervously watching while the world outside and around them collapses. What do you think?

That Burgess Meredith episode is one of the best. I’m not sure who had the most appearances on Twilight Zone, but I’m guessing one of these:
Burgess Meredith
Jack Klugman
The dude whose name escapes me (I’ll look it up)

I believe that show was Robert Redford’s debut. He played Death. Remember that one?

You should listen to all their stuff. Its all very good I think. Mark Sandman died so they are no more. Watch the live stuff. Two string bass, a drummer that can actually keep time and a cat that plays good sax, sometimes two.

I loved them all. I just thought Sterling was the coolest dude in the whole world.

Bmore on June 17, 2012 at 2:53 AM

When I was in college back in the 80′s my vocal coach was a man named Micheal Pollack, he wife was the famous opera singer Beverly Sill’s. Rod Serling was one of Micheal’s boyhood friends. He had about a half a dozen of the original Twilight Zone scripts that he had gotten from Rod over the years. Try as I might I never could get him to surrender any of those scripts… ;p

Not hard to understand why he might want to hang on to them. LOL! I noticed upthread from the vids you loaded your nic. I remember you from when all I could do was read the comments and not comment. You’ll have to refresh my memory sometime as to what went down.

Slade, homework for you , photos and Morphine.

Axe, when you get famous off my idea for a thriller in the genre of Sterlings stuff about those poor, poor commenters. I want a shout out when you hit the stage at the Acadamy Awards show.

However, today was a very, very cool day for me. Let me put it this way: You’ll never meet as gracious a guy, or someone as fascinating to talk with than James O’Keefe. He was here in Vegas Saturday to give his speech at Right OnLine, and I was fortunate enough to have a chance to have a great conversation with him early this afternoon. Get this too – he’s very animated about his latest Project, the results of which he’ll be releasing soon.

Tip his jar here guys, as much as possible. What he’s doing with Project Veritas is more courageous and vital to our republic than most anything I know of – O’Keefe is piercing all the veils, and shining white, hot light where these slimy, conniving corruptocrats really don’t want it shone. It’s hurting them and they utterly fear where James O’Keefe will turn up next. Best kind of guy on earth to have in a foxhole with you, and that’s high praise where I’m from.

But will not this superior reasoning scare the hell out of independents and result in the election of Obama for a second term? Remember, we can’t repeat the mistakes of 2008.

richardporter on June 16, 2012 at 11:00 PM

I suspect that a lot of folks who call themselves republicans are really far from being conservatives and would be far more comfortable with an “Independent Party” thereby avoiding having genuine principles and fighting for them.

Thank God such thinking didn’t prevail during revolutionary times. There is no middle ground with evil–namely those who seek to destroy freedom and our constitutional form of governance, which recognizes that our rights come from Nature’s God and not a worldly state. What we have now is a lot of folks who have no problem trading away those precious rights -many of them in the GOP.

Didn’t watch the video because I’m preoccupied with the thing with the open borders that Obama was promoting this week.

But if Palin ran I would of gone door to door. I saw her a few times and it was inspiring. She’s not perfect. She got glaring flaws but there are things she can do that almost no one else can. She is #1 at firing up a crowd. She’s the most inspirational pol that I’ve seen. And she’s got that clean clean 30k emails clean past. Also, she like Reagan before her, is best at making the straight case for limited government, strong morals and a hard working pioneering spirit.

I think those bus stunts last summer were jinky. I still don’t know what she was doing???

But if Palin ran I would of gone door to door. I saw her a few times and it was inspiring. She’s not perfect. She got glaring flaws but there are things she can do that almost no one else can. She is #1 at firing up a crowd. She’s the most inspirational pol that I’ve seen. And she’s got that clean clean 30k emails clean past. Also, she like Reagan before her, is best at making the straight case for limited government, strong morals and a hard working pioneering spirit.

I think those bus stunts last summer were jinky. I still don’t know what she was doing???

BoxHead1 on June 17, 2012 at 6:18 AM

I agree with your first paragraph.

As for the bus tour, I really think Sarah was undecided right until the last minute. I think she did the bus tour to see if she really wanted to do it and see if her family really wanted her to run.

Above all Sarah is honest and trustworthy, I don’t see any ulterior motives for the bus tour.

Seriously, there are ALWAYS ulterior motive. In Mrs. Palin’s case, it’s money and adoration. And, there is nothing wrong with that. Just don’t confuse her with someone capable of talking about the economy or foreign policy from the standpoint of experience.

Above all Sarah is honest and trustworthy, I don’t see any ulterior motives for the bus tour.

LevinFan on June 17, 2012 at 6:33 AM

Good Morning.

I didn’t see a specific “ulterior motive” but the bus tour was a good deal of self promotion for …what???

I don’t believe she was going to run. Ste never set up the organization. 04p was a great resource that any of the others would have died for but it was not funded and it was disorganized (though highly organized considering it was unfunded). Mitt was the only one in there to win it. Palin was not trying to win.

Sandusky is being examined by a psychiatrist today to determine if he “suffers” from mental illness, before his trial resumes tomorrow. In other words, his trial is going badly for him, so it’s time to try the insanity defense.

I saw somebody post earlier about how the real leader of the GOP had spoken, as if you’re 100% in for Romney you can’t have other opinions…

I totally support Sarah Palin…I think she can do great things..But I also support Mitt Romney a 100% and know he’s gonna rock this shit and win….supporting either one isn’t mutually exclusive….One I support as a current GOP warrior and one I support as the 110% GOP badass for President of the United States…I think it’s gonnna be great!

Note that the haters only critique Mrs. Palin’s speech pattern, delivery, appearance, mannerism, etc. etc. But never ever, I repeat never ever, her message. Why is that? Oh, I don’t know maybe because she is nearly always right. Crony capitalism, career politicians, the corrupt media, the need to exploit America’s own resources, faith and family, the importance of every human life, etc. etc. All of those are the core of her, and ours, beliefs. They are everything we could hope in a candidate. And yet the haters can’t let go of the petty. Maybe it is all they have to hang their hate on. Sad.

Usually, the messages Sarah delivers make sense and I agree with them. After listening to a few minutes of this speech, however, I am convinced that the way in which she delivers those messages needs to improve. She repeatedly addresses her audience in a tone of voice commensurate with that used in talking to a classroom of first-graders. Sarah is addressing serious subjects and her manner of speaking needs to reflect that seriousness as well as the high intelligence of her audience. She has the potential to be twice as powerful a public speaker as she is presently but IMHO this is holding her back.